Big data is now the key to business success. Businesses have to dig into the data very carefully to be able to stay healthy in the market. An entity working upon sensitive data should stay up-to-date with industry trends and always available to the required resources. As the importance and quantity of the data grew, the probability of data loss raised exponentially.
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The burgeoning risk of losing critical information has led businesses to adopt hosted solutions for managing not only business efficiency but also, budgetary constraints. One crucial component of hosted systems – disaster recovery solutions facilitate businesses to knock out every possible point of failures and build right flexible solutions based upon budget.
Shielding Company’s Reputation
Downtime costs businesses much more than just a financial drain. Business clients, partners may lose trust in business if primary constraints are not met due to downtime. For instance, if CPA firm experiences downtime two days before the deadline to file taxes and does not keep up the services as promised, the organization may end up facing a lawsuit from unhappy customers. BDR (Business and Disaster Recovery) solution enables businesses to access data in the cloud and ensures that reputation of the company is not degraded. Now, as BDR supports IP network, it gives the flexibility to call routing.
Maintaining Business’s Potential to Create Revenue
Be it power outage or server breakdown or any other kind of extreme disaster. Businesses can’t run the way they want in such conditions. Downtime can create a severe impact on the organization. The company may need to answer the calls anytime, reply to emails or access any important data as needed. Downtime gives businesses a sudden setback. Identifying and analyzing disaster threats in time can help businesses deal with potential threats effectively and ensure that companies never miss a chance for earning revenue.
Shielding Telephone Network From Fraud
A hosted VoIP solution has potential service-level agreements (SLAs) and disaster recovery plans in place which ensures voice data is transferred through a secured network with built-in redundancy. This way risk of hacker attack gets diluted. Some of the service providers send an automated email or SMS when a system reaches a defined limit or completely restrict the outbound calls until the problem has passed.
Overcoming Environmental Issues
Flood, fire or any kind of power outage can happen anytime. With hosted solutions, all the critical elements are located physically on service providers’ network at different sites. This implies that critical functions such as voicemail, auto-attendant can be accessed from any remote location. If any serious environmental issue arises, phones can be connected to IP network from any remote location and business continues to stay normal.
Robust Network Management
Disaster recovery plans offer exhaustive network management that gives detailed documentation and helps to clearly understand network functioning which enables businesses to quickly resolve the issues. Documentation of networked equipment can be automated with the help of RMM applications. So, any kind of server failure or network issue can be easily identified and resolved.
Wrapping it up
So if a disaster strikes at your Toronto office, DR plans in place will ensure calls get routed to the desired site without making end-users realize any change in dialing pattern. Disaster preparedness of the businesses ensures services never get affected or restricted. Phone systems stay fully redundant and failover issues can be minimized.